Florida voters antagonistic President Trump’s concept of allowing qualified teachers and different faculty staffers to carry concealed guns through FIFTY SIX p.c to FORTY %, a new ballot stated Wednesday.

Folks with school-age youngsters in public schools also hostile the plan, but by means of a rather closer margin, 53 p.c to 43 percent, consistent with the Quinnipiac University survey.

However FIFTY ONE p.c said “increased security in class entrances” could do extra to scale back gun violence in schools — like the Feb. 14 bloodbath at a highschool in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 other people useless — in comparison to 32 % who say stricter gun regulations would paintings higher and 12 p.c who say armed teachers may do more to keep schools protected, the ballot said.

Florida citizens supported through SIXTY TWO p.c to 33 p.c a nationwide ban on the sale of “attack weapons.”

In a separate question with other wording, voters subsidized via 53 % to FORTY TWO % a nationwide ban at the sale of all “semi automated rifles.”

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“The perception that we’re bitterly divided on political matters — the case for prior a long time — has discovered an exception to that rule. Florida voters, be they young or antique, white or black, guy or woman, have a common enemy,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the ballot .

“Floridians are strongly united that more needs to be done to reign in weapons, especially the kind of gun used this month to bloodbath 17 other folks in Parkland.”

The survey additionally confirmed that NINETY SIX % of Floridians choose history exams for all gun patrons as against just THREE % who don’t.

Sunshine State citizens had been additionally disappointed with the way in which Trump responded to the taking pictures, disapproving via 50 % to 39 p.c.

Trump answered partly to the bloodbath, — during which a 19-year-old former student at Stoneman Douglas High School fatally shot 14 scholars and three staffers with an AR-15 assault rifle — through featuring that qualified lecturers and staffers be allowed to hold concealed weapons at school.